The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

At times things doesn't happen our way. Let it happen the way our life want or god has decided. May be yet to come is the best to come.

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

People having expectations maybe means they've enjoyed what I've done.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.